Want me to push it back one more level? Where profiling is revealed as the pointless effort it is, and you simply straighten up or you die...?
"There must be security for all, or no one is secure. Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly. Your ancestors knew this when they made laws to govern themselves and hired policemen to enforce them. We, of the other planets, have long accepted this principle. We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets and for the complete elimination of aggression. The test of any such higher authority is, of course, the police force that supports it. For our policemen, we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in spaceships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked. At the first sign of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk."
"...you wouldn't want a person to sit down with a prison inmate and ask them these questions face to face"
Inmate, machine, human, whomever - the point is, just be sure to check under the table!:)
These types of profile-determination exams always entertain me. I was with a group of ruffians one night, minding our business as it were, when a pair of local Sheriffs came 'round to see if any of us warranted their interest. They lined all ten of us up and went down the line, one by one...
Cop #1 to Ruffian #1: "Ever been arrested, son?"
Ruffian #1: "Yes, sir, as a matter of fact I have..."
Cop #2: "Really? What for, may I ask"?
Ruffian #1, after a brief pause... "Why, for molesting an officer, of course. I... I hope that isn't going to cause any negativity between us, tho..."
What with us remaining ruffies all stifling laughter, things went pretty much downhill from there, as the officers could only think to draw their weapons and take a step or two backwards:)
"Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?"
"The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping."
'reconstucted' - doesn't necessarily mean the same, now does it:) In this example, it simply means the break was repaired, and of course, each break would be unique, thus requiring unique repair. In CA, mudslides onto roadways usually result from loss of vegetation above - usually resulting from ill-timed fires.
I've seen repairs that took only hours and some that took months. Historical records that include such things as traditional topos, engineering drawings and modern visual records are all used to help decide the best course of action.
One of the worst I recall (Hwy.50) was when the entire highway for a few hundred meters was pushed to the opposite side of a narrow canyon and small river that paralleled the original roadway. Of course the river went where it felt most comfortable, but deciding the best path for replacement of the roadbed was another matter entirely. In the end, changing the path of both the river and the road for the affected stretch were part of the final solution.
CA. uses roadway footage at railway crossings to defend in court cases. It isn't enough any longer to have 'expert' witnesses. I think they refresh every 7 or 8 years.
The State of California, for one, has been filming at street level for the last decade. Shots are used for court cases, reconstruction of roads when wiped out by mudslide, etc. What...you've never taken a photo in your neighborhood and posted it on the 'net?
The comment about it happening around the world is most likely crap... MS is already in enough trouble without sticking their neck in yet another noose.
"...the almost 8 billion transactions per year they handle may be in danger."
It was as if the entire NCC had suddenly received the news, and the voices of NCC staffers across the country had cried out as one. We could only look at each other in stunned silence, afraid to speak, as if any utterance would risk making our greatest fear become real, and the terror would come out of the cold dark depths...t'would come for us - the KRACKEN!!!
What a waste of time - nothing but a slow-motion method of getting you to pull pages/adverts. It is neither useful, nor credible - most likely a feh-fah-phishing pond as well. Can't believe someone submitted it. Can't understand how it was picked for listing...
If you really need such a resource, the two below are decent examples:
Like most actions that measure, while things look tidy on paper, applying them is where the trouble shows up.
As the example going begging here....just who gets to decide what constitutes 'obviousness'...?
Because at the end of the day, we're going to be left with only those things that are SO obvious they don't need to be pointed out, and there goes the process.
"One man's window is another man's door...one man's ceiling is another man's floor - one man's princess is another man's whore."
Big deal - I know a couple guys, in the PRC, that could reverse engineer this thing and have working copies, with instructions in 12 languages, for sale on street before dusk...
A small increase in transition temperature was the last thing we needed at this point. What little luck we had left was spent during the gravitational slingshot and none of us needed a glance at the holo-panel to know the ion shields had only minutes before a collapsed inner hull went from worry to worse.
Without saying it aloud, we all knew the survival of the ship...our survival...was totally dependent on staying out of sensor range for just a bit longer. The sub-orbital alerting buoys, with their grid-multiplied scan vectors and frequency-hopping proximity background energy detectors, had only to exert minimal effort before group consensus deemed us an unauthorized guest.
Please keep the profanity to yourselfNow there's something not seen every day - a wannabe list-mom, not afraid to strike out. Wickedly delivered, sure to strike fear in the heart of the evil-doer you've so publically chastised. Can we have another?
Let me offer just a small bit of advice, and remember, it is promised to be worth exactly what you paid for it.
Stop - don't do that again. You'll only bring attention to yourself as being a target ripe for kicking, while setting yourself up for a tight-fitting suit of frustration. Most forums have appointed Moderators who are responsible for reminding the rowdy - but this is Slashdot, where there are no visible moderators. Once the blood (yours) gets in the water, every shark in the vicinity will line up for a bite of your face...and they have pretty long memories, so don't think you can drop into lurk mode and resurface for a second attempt any time soon.
If you simply can't resist the urge to police another human being, try hanging out near the Slushy machine at your favorite 7-11. First time someone wastes a napkin or spills on the floor, feel free to put on your best mean-face...don't be shy. Promise them the risk of being banned from the store is real...ask their name and take it down, then angrily storm up to the cashier and hand it over, not with a shrug. but with the hard-boned hubrusity of someone who is convinced they are society's elite. This will not only make your day as a citizen, it will be something you'll be proud of for years to come.
'Ol people' know something the youngers may not..."the only way to live outside the law is to live within it."
Passing this off as a generational default does justice to none. If anything, younger generations simply haven't had time yet to enjoy spending a night in jail because your brother used your DL the last time he was ticked for speeding. Or they haven't had the pleasure of the Police knocking down their door (when they should have been elsewhere) in the middle of the night, looking for a rape in progress because someone figured out how to spoof the 911 system? Or they have yet to be called in for an IRS audit because some border-jumper used their SSN? MAYBE they still need to go thru the experience of being mistakenly strapped into a lie detector and accused of murder thanks to a 'misunderstanding' by the cops? Eh, Bunky...think this sounds like fantasy?
Give it time...your number (literally) will come up, and when it does, remember...in jail, everyone is innocent and only your cellmates can hear you scream - face down into the stained, smelly and torn mattress, of course. You'll love it, I promise....bitch.
The UC related individuals who initiated the incident were unarmed 'Community Service Officers' (CSOs), who assist with security in buildings, check for missing scent-cakes in the urinals, log and track missing umbrellas, etc. R E N T A -- C O P'perzzzz (watch the video please...). Real officers would have handled the situation in an entirely different, and dare I say _professional_, manner. Which, by the way, is the real issue. Wanna-be's that can't handle the least bit of authority without screwing things up when some airhead decides it's a good day to die.
I saw the video on TV right after this incident went down. I'm not sure which side I come down on, however.
As has been mentioned before, cops are cops, and renta-cops are not. In any case, if the check was indeed random, Mr. Tabatabainejad stuck his neck in the noose the instant he refused to furnish his I.D. He then attempted to saunter away, perhaps regretting his initial defiance after all. I don't see any reason this should have gone as far as it did, with him certainly foregoing any chance of claiming to be a victim. (Websters' - victim: a person subjected to circumstances beyond their control).
Once he started resisting, it was just a matter of time before it turned into a confrontation...and this is where renta-cops get all warm and excited, wetting their panties like a little school girl who just had her first kiss. They get to show AUTHORITY!! (it was kind of funny, tho, seeing him do back-flips on command & all) - "How many times they say you can prod a perp before that thing runs down, Harv? Zap him once in the testicles just for me, please?"
All I can say is that Tabatabainejad should be thankful this happened today, with only a Taser being shoved up his ass, and not twenty years ago, with a Smith-Wesson... I got $10,000.00 for being a target, one time - can't wait to see how much Mr. T. thinks he should be paid for being forced to act like a pop-up doll. I hope he gets zip, by the way:)
"...and was charged with disrupting public order, inciting religious hatred and defaming the president."
All we need now is a set of 8 X 10 glossies, some turkey stuffing and a gang of father-rapers.
Face it - if a pair of handcuffs have your name on them, you're going downtown and the charges only have to stick for as long as it takes to throw you in the back of the paddy wagon. Once they find out how this all works, they'll put this guy, or someone like him, on their payroll with those otherwise shady tactics working for their own purposes.
Excuse me, but how could an "online economy" ever be viable? It doesn't produce anything, and [clip]
You're new, I'm guessing...
It produces an environment whereby the ever sought-after eyeballs are gathered, occasionally focused and always tracked. Doesn't matter if it is a polar bear in a snow storm, if you can prove that the multitudes are looking your way, you can cash in.
"We at a total loss to understand how this policy has developed, who is behind it and why there is such haste in enacting it into law -- with little if any public debate."
The number of new articles posted daily has increased 75% from the week before, with the total now surpassing 100,000
You gotta love scale. Imagine what will happen once they get genuinely interested in the West and start checking out something more than just college entrance fees...
Maybe this will finally get people outside China to start showing a bit of awareness when told they have no reliable/previous experience with the shear scale of things China brings to the table.
Maybe, just maybe, a few outsiders will get a clue and stop thinking they can judge China according to how they go about their (statistical) lives every day. More than one business model is going out the window, I can promise that much:)
"No one's sure how long this will be available to the People's Republic of China"
Just as long as it takes to build a representative statistical sample pool of the individuals doing all the recent updates...once that's ready - OH!...and the guys are done clubbing dogs. THEN we're gonna see some real head-banging:)
One factor that seems to be overlooked is viewer ability to smell a rat and subsequently not be taken in. I feel more people realize the segment is a crafted fake, versus a genuine news spot, than the agencys doing the monitoring assume. I know I've seen these and have been able to tell, and if I can detect the fraud, so can others.
Want something to really worry about in terms of broadcast hyjinks? MTV is using the tried and true subliminal 'power of suggestion' in various spots in their broadcasts in Asia. I happened to be capturing TV via a DVR one evening, and when I played back my sample via the jog wheel, I was able to clearly see a text message inside a faint white rectangular box, overlaid into a short commercial for an upcoming show. It came and went quickly...'progress is now - Fridays on MTV'...not long enough to spot unless you were paying close attention at that moment, but long enough to be captured by the brain for subliminal decoding...ouch. MTVs' idea or broadcast on the behest of some agency, perhaps?
When you wrote your software, and released it with the standard OSS disclaimers and how it was 'free' under such-and-such conditions, what was your expectation at that time?
Did you expect OSS chartered/legal claims to protect you if someone dipped their quill into your ink, or did you expect individuals to police themselves and do the right thing?
Be honest...I'll bet if anything, it was the latter scenario that passed thru your head.
In addition, I'd be willing to bet that before this incident, you were a copyright virgin. You had no direct experience with purloined content and willingly put yourself into the position found today. Now, don't get me wrong. I've had entire websites cloned without so much as a piss-off.
You may have had more luck going to his ISP and mentioning that they were contributing to his wrong-doing, and you needed their lawyers' contact info so you could proceed to close things down. As it is now, you are forced to defend yourself after the fact, and the only thing you may gain is experience, sad to say.
Top Ten Things to do with an unwanted ZUNE
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Once the public gets wind of another iPod killer missing the mark, those brave 'early adopters' that sprang for a Zune will be looking to find a use for the darn things, since no one will want to take it off their hands. In that spirit, here is a list of the Top Ten things to do with an unwanted Zune...
10. Use it to tell peoples' fortunes down at the pier on weekends. Put it on random play and see what mysticism is invoked when their dead Uncle Bob speaks to them from the other side.
9. Doorstop...
8. Paperweight...
7. Water-saver (brick) for the downstairs toilet.
6. Donate it to the local SPCA as a chew toy and claim a nice tax credit.
5. Run it over with the lawnmower, making sure to video tape the staged incident and go for the big prize on AFHVs' - if you can get it to play something by Jim Morrison during the slaughter, all the better.
4. Grind it up into powder and tiny shavings, mix it with your daily bowl of All Bran and notify Guinness WRs' that you just ate your Zune!
3. Set it to play an endless loop of a load ticking clock. Put it into a plain brown grocery bag, leave it on the steps of your local courthouse and call in a fake bomb scare. Another candidate for AFHVs':)
2. Scuff the back side, claim you can see Jesus in the markings, build a makeshift loft in the backyard and call the Enquirer.
1. Soak it in lighter fluid and gun powder, set it up at the local firing range and charge $5 bucks a bullet to let your friends see who can turn it into a low-budget, low-orbit msICBM.
i think people are a little confused about what Sony are trying to achieve with the PS3
I think you're the one that is confused, sorry. Sony is all about long-term w/the PS3, and there is no single element of it that will make or break those goals.
Owning the next-gen DVD format is the prize here
Irrelevant...that token is off the table with today's announcement of a 'playz-all' drive. Poof - gone. Risk-free for both sides and life goes on. Next problem?!
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Want me to push it back one more level? Where profiling is revealed as the pointless effort it is, and you simply straighten up or you die...?
"There must be security for all, or no one is secure. Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly. Your ancestors knew this when they made laws to govern themselves and hired policemen to enforce them. We, of the other planets, have long accepted this principle. We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets and for the complete elimination of aggression. The test of any such higher authority is, of course, the police force that supports it. For our policemen, we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in spaceships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked. At the first sign of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk."
"...you wouldn't want a person to sit down with a prison inmate and ask them these questions face to face"
:)
:)
Inmate, machine, human, whomever - the point is, just be sure to check under the table!
These types of profile-determination exams always entertain me. I was with a group of ruffians one night, minding our business as it were, when a pair of local Sheriffs came 'round to see if any of us warranted their interest. They lined all ten of us up and went down the line, one by one...
Cop #1 to Ruffian #1: "Ever been arrested, son?"
Ruffian #1: "Yes, sir, as a matter of fact I have..."
Cop #2: "Really? What for, may I ask"?
Ruffian #1, after a brief pause... "Why, for molesting an officer, of course. I... I hope that isn't going to cause any negativity between us, tho..."
What with us remaining ruffies all stifling laughter, things went pretty much downhill from there, as the officers could only think to draw their weapons and take a step or two backwards
"Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?"
"The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, I'M NOT HELPING?"
"I mean you're not helping! Why is that, Leon?"
'exactly the same' are your words, not mine.
:) In this example, it simply means the break was repaired, and of course, each break would be unique, thus requiring unique repair. In CA, mudslides onto roadways usually result from loss of vegetation above - usually resulting from ill-timed fires.
'reconstucted' - doesn't necessarily mean the same, now does it
I've seen repairs that took only hours and some that took months. Historical records that include such things as traditional topos, engineering drawings and modern visual records are all used to help decide the best course of action.
One of the worst I recall (Hwy.50) was when the entire highway for a few hundred meters was pushed to the opposite side of a narrow canyon and small river that paralleled the original roadway. Of course the river went where it felt most comfortable, but deciding the best path for replacement of the roadbed was another matter entirely. In the end, changing the path of both the river and the road for the affected stretch were part of the final solution.
CA. uses roadway footage at railway crossings to defend in court cases. It isn't enough any longer to have 'expert' witnesses. I think they refresh every 7 or 8 years.
The State of California, for one, has been filming at street level for the last decade. Shots are used for court cases, reconstruction of roads when wiped out by mudslide, etc. What...you've never taken a photo in your neighborhood and posted it on the 'net?
The comment about it happening around the world is most likely crap... MS is already in enough trouble without sticking their neck in yet another noose.
"...the almost 8 billion transactions per year they handle may be in danger."
It was as if the entire NCC had suddenly received the news, and the voices of NCC staffers across the country had cried out as one. We could only look at each other in stunned silence, afraid to speak, as if any utterance would risk making our greatest fear become real, and the terror would come out of the cold dark depths...t'would come for us - the KRACKEN!!!
Motorola A1200 Ming. Now to figure out how to remove the default browser from the home screen.
If you really need such a resource, the two below are decent examples:
MS could have a good movie handed to them on a floppy and still find a way to zune it up somewhere between ad launch and release.
Remember, it's the singer, not the song.
Say it with me.... T R O N
Like most actions that measure, while things look tidy on paper, applying them is where the trouble shows up.
As the example going begging here....just who gets to decide what constitutes 'obviousness'...?
Because at the end of the day, we're going to be left with only those things that are SO obvious they don't need to be pointed out, and there goes the process.
"One man's window is another man's door...one man's ceiling is another man's floor - one man's princess is another man's whore."
Big deal - I know a couple guys, in the PRC, that could reverse engineer this thing and have working copies, with instructions in 12 languages, for sale on street before dusk...
A small increase in transition temperature was the last thing we needed at this point. What little luck we had left was spent during the gravitational slingshot and none of us needed a glance at the holo-panel to know the ion shields had only minutes before a collapsed inner hull went from worry to worse.
Without saying it aloud, we all knew the survival of the ship...our survival...was totally dependent on staying out of sensor range for just a bit longer. The sub-orbital alerting buoys, with their grid-multiplied scan vectors and frequency-hopping proximity background energy detectors, had only to exert minimal effort before group consensus deemed us an unauthorized guest.
Please keep the profanity to yourselfNow there's something not seen every day - a wannabe list-mom, not afraid to strike out. Wickedly delivered, sure to strike fear in the heart of the evil-doer you've so publically chastised. Can we have another?
Let me offer just a small bit of advice, and remember, it is promised to be worth exactly what you paid for it.
Stop - don't do that again. You'll only bring attention to yourself as being a target ripe for kicking, while setting yourself up for a tight-fitting suit of frustration. Most forums have appointed Moderators who are responsible for reminding the rowdy - but this is Slashdot, where there are no visible moderators. Once the blood (yours) gets in the water, every shark in the vicinity will line up for a bite of your face...and they have pretty long memories, so don't think you can drop into lurk mode and resurface for a second attempt any time soon.
If you simply can't resist the urge to police another human being, try hanging out near the Slushy machine at your favorite 7-11. First time someone wastes a napkin or spills on the floor, feel free to put on your best mean-face...don't be shy. Promise them the risk of being banned from the store is real...ask their name and take it down, then angrily storm up to the cashier and hand it over, not with a shrug. but with the hard-boned hubrusity of someone who is convinced they are society's elite. This will not only make your day as a citizen, it will be something you'll be proud of for years to come.
Put it on your resume, perhaps. Who knows, with the way things are going, the need for easily identifiable assholes such as yourself may just become a premium within our lifetime.
'Ol people' know something the youngers may not..."the only way to live outside the law is to live within it."
Passing this off as a generational default does justice to none. If anything, younger generations simply haven't had time yet to enjoy spending a night in jail because your brother used your DL the last time he was ticked for speeding. Or they haven't had the pleasure of the Police knocking down their door (when they should have been elsewhere) in the middle of the night, looking for a rape in progress because someone figured out how to spoof the 911 system? Or they have yet to be called in for an IRS audit because some border-jumper used their SSN? MAYBE they still need to go thru the experience of being mistakenly strapped into a lie detector and accused of murder thanks to a 'misunderstanding' by the cops? Eh, Bunky...think this sounds like fantasy?
Give it time...your number (literally) will come up, and when it does, remember...in jail, everyone is innocent and only your cellmates can hear you scream - face down into the stained, smelly and torn mattress, of course. You'll love it, I promise....bitch.
The UC related individuals who initiated the incident were unarmed 'Community Service Officers' (CSOs), who assist with security in buildings, check for missing scent-cakes in the urinals, log and track missing umbrellas, etc. R E N T A -- C O P'perzzzz (watch the video please...). Real officers would have handled the situation in an entirely different, and dare I say _professional_, manner. Which, by the way, is the real issue. Wanna-be's that can't handle the least bit of authority without screwing things up when some airhead decides it's a good day to die.
I saw the video on TV right after this incident went down. I'm not sure which side I come down on, however.
:)
As has been mentioned before, cops are cops, and renta-cops are not. In any case, if the check was indeed random, Mr. Tabatabainejad stuck his neck in the noose the instant he refused to furnish his I.D. He then attempted to saunter away, perhaps regretting his initial defiance after all. I don't see any reason this should have gone as far as it did, with him certainly foregoing any chance of claiming to be a victim. (Websters' - victim: a person subjected to circumstances beyond their control).
Once he started resisting, it was just a matter of time before it turned into a confrontation...and this is where renta-cops get all warm and excited, wetting their panties like a little school girl who just had her first kiss. They get to show AUTHORITY!! (it was kind of funny, tho, seeing him do back-flips on command & all) - "How many times they say you can prod a perp before that thing runs down, Harv? Zap him once in the testicles just for me, please?"
All I can say is that Tabatabainejad should be thankful this happened today, with only a Taser being shoved up his ass, and not twenty years ago, with a Smith-Wesson... I got $10,000.00 for being a target, one time - can't wait to see how much Mr. T. thinks he should be paid for being forced to act like a pop-up doll. I hope he gets zip, by the way
"...and was charged with disrupting public order, inciting religious hatred and defaming the president."
All we need now is a set of 8 X 10 glossies, some turkey stuffing and a gang of father-rapers.
Face it - if a pair of handcuffs have your name on them, you're going downtown and the charges only have to stick for as long as it takes to throw you in the back of the paddy wagon. Once they find out how this all works, they'll put this guy, or someone like him, on their payroll with those otherwise shady tactics working for their own purposes.
Excuse me, but how could an "online economy" ever be viable? It doesn't produce anything, and [clip]
You're new, I'm guessing...
It produces an environment whereby the ever sought-after eyeballs are gathered, occasionally focused and always tracked. Doesn't matter if it is a polar bear in a snow storm, if you can prove that the multitudes are looking your way, you can cash in.
"We at a total loss to understand how this policy has developed, who is behind it and why there is such haste in enacting it into law -- with little if any public debate."
"Recent Government reviews have resulted in the proposed introduction of the Copyright Amendment (Exceptions, Enforcement and Other Measures) Bill in the Autumn sitting of 2006. The proposed new legislation will be designed to bring Australian copyright laws up to speed and implement outcomes for the 2005 reviews."
I'm at a total loss to understand why anyone would find it difficult to uncover background on this topic...
The number of new articles posted daily has increased 75% from the week before, with the total now surpassing 100,000
:)
You gotta love scale. Imagine what will happen once they get genuinely interested in the West and start checking out something more than just college entrance fees...
Maybe this will finally get people outside China to start showing a bit of awareness when told they have no reliable/previous experience with the shear scale of things China brings to the table.
Maybe, just maybe, a few outsiders will get a clue and stop thinking they can judge China according to how they go about their (statistical) lives every day. More than one business model is going out the window, I can promise that much
"No one's sure how long this will be available to the People's Republic of China"
...and the guys are done clubbing dogs. THEN we're gonna see some real head-banging :)
Just as long as it takes to build a representative statistical sample pool of the individuals doing all the recent updates...once that's ready - OH!
One factor that seems to be overlooked is viewer ability to smell a rat and subsequently not be taken in. I feel more people realize the segment is a crafted fake, versus a genuine news spot, than the agencys doing the monitoring assume. I know I've seen these and have been able to tell, and if I can detect the fraud, so can others.
Want something to really worry about in terms of broadcast hyjinks? MTV is using the tried and true subliminal 'power of suggestion' in various spots in their broadcasts in Asia. I happened to be capturing TV via a DVR one evening, and when I played back my sample via the jog wheel, I was able to clearly see a text message inside a faint white rectangular box, overlaid into a short commercial for an upcoming show. It came and went quickly...'progress is now - Fridays on MTV'...not long enough to spot unless you were paying close attention at that moment, but long enough to be captured by the brain for subliminal decoding...ouch. MTVs' idea or broadcast on the behest of some agency, perhaps?
When you wrote your software, and released it with the standard OSS disclaimers and how it was 'free' under such-and-such conditions, what was your expectation at that time?
Did you expect OSS chartered/legal claims to protect you if someone dipped their quill into your ink, or did you expect individuals to police themselves and do the right thing?
Be honest...I'll bet if anything, it was the latter scenario that passed thru your head.
In addition, I'd be willing to bet that before this incident, you were a copyright virgin. You had no direct experience with purloined content and willingly put yourself into the position found today. Now, don't get me wrong. I've had entire websites cloned without so much as a piss-off.
You may have had more luck going to his ISP and mentioning that they were contributing to his wrong-doing, and you needed their lawyers' contact info so you could proceed to close things down. As it is now, you are forced to defend yourself after the fact, and the only thing you may gain is experience, sad to say.
Once the public gets wind of another iPod killer missing the mark, those brave 'early adopters' that sprang for a Zune will be looking to find a use for the darn things, since no one will want to take it off their hands. In that spirit, here is a list of the Top Ten things to do with an unwanted Zune...
:)
10. Use it to tell peoples' fortunes down at the pier on weekends. Put it on random play and see what mysticism is invoked when their dead Uncle Bob speaks to them from the other side.
9. Doorstop...
8. Paperweight...
7. Water-saver (brick) for the downstairs toilet.
6. Donate it to the local SPCA as a chew toy and claim a nice tax credit.
5. Run it over with the lawnmower, making sure to video tape the staged incident and go for the big prize on AFHVs' - if you can get it to play something by Jim Morrison during the slaughter, all the better.
4. Grind it up into powder and tiny shavings, mix it with your daily bowl of All Bran and notify Guinness WRs' that you just ate your Zune!
3. Set it to play an endless loop of a load ticking clock. Put it into a plain brown grocery bag, leave it on the steps of your local courthouse and call in a fake bomb scare. Another candidate for AFHVs'
2. Scuff the back side, claim you can see Jesus in the markings, build a makeshift loft in the backyard and call the Enquirer.
1. Soak it in lighter fluid and gun powder, set it up at the local firing range and charge $5 bucks a bullet to let your friends see who can turn it into a low-budget, low-orbit msICBM.
i think people are a little confused about what Sony are trying to achieve with the PS3
I think you're the one that is confused, sorry. Sony is all about long-term w/the PS3, and there is no single element of it that will make or break those goals.
Owning the next-gen DVD format is the prize here
Irrelevant...that token is off the table with today's announcement of a 'playz-all' drive. Poof - gone. Risk-free for both sides and life goes on. Next problem?!